Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 51, 25 August 1894, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Kiwitea County Council met to-day The usual quantity of interesting reading matter will be found on the fourth page of to-day's issue. Sheep-owners should remember that the sheep rate is payable at any post office where there is a money order office, on or before tlie Ist September. A wild pig, weighing 4451b5, w*s recently on view in a butchers' shop at Pahiatua. It was killed in the Forty Milo Bush. Particulars in connection with the Wesleyan Church services for to-morrow are announced. Rev. J. Thomas, of Marton, will occupy the pulpit in the morning, and Rev. W. J^eo : of JP^lmerston, in the evening. We (Standard) regret to announce that Mr John Shaw, a very old and respected colonist, and grandfather of Mrs Drury, died at Awahuri on Tfourßday. The funeral will leave the Endymlou Hotel for the Paltncrstou cemetery tomorrow at 1 o'clock, yiv Shaw arrived in Wellington with the first detachment of the 65th Regiment over fifty years ago. The Returning Oiljcc.r of the Borough, Mr G. C. Hill, gives notice tjjat he has appointed Monday, September jjrd, #s the day on which ho will receive nominations for the election of three Councillors. Messrs F. Y. Lcthbridge, W. A. L. Bailey and J. C, Xhoinpaou are tho retiring Councillors.

A. memorial sermon will be preached in the Wesleyan Church at. Birmingham on Sunday evening, by the Rev. T. R. ilicbards, on the life of the late A. J. Perry. We hear that Mr Haultaiu, formerly clerk of the Court at Feilding and Palmerston, now of Auckland, is about to retire from the civil service on compensation, owing to illhealth. A middle-aged women went into a painter's shop in Christchurch the other day, and tendered a £'100 note for 9d worth of coloring. The shopman was surprised, and wondered if money was as scarce as many people endeavored to make out.— Truth. A little child named Bennett lost its life in Maitland, New South Wales, last week, through taking a drink of sulphuric acid out of a bottle which it found near a cordial factory at the Horseshoe Bend. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was recorded. New Zealand will have to look to her laurels (says an English paper). Much has been said recently about her first Lady Mayor. But they have gone one better in the United States. The Police Commissioner of Leaveuworth, Kansas, is Mrs Eva M. Blackman, who is, moreover, the editor and proprietor of a newspaper, and is only twenty-seven 1 General Booth in London. " I hare fixed upon my colony and the land which is tuitable, but I want to know what the response to my present appeal will be. I have selected the land, but with heavy liabilities I cannot and dare not go into debt. When the money is furnished I will proceed as quickly as possible 10 complete the work." Professor Cotching, F.S.S., is announced to give a brilliant phonograph entertainment in Feilding, on Tuesday evening next, with what is claimed to be the best instrument ever heard in the colony. Judging from press remarks a treat is in store for those who attend the Professor's entertainment. The phonograph is to be exhibited iv j Bunnythorpe on Monday evening next. Mr E. M. Smith told the House on Wednesday that at one of his election meetings he had asked his audience to give three cheers for the genial old gentleman who was opposing him. After the cheers were concluded he asked them to give three cheers for a much better man than his opponent ever would be. "Who's that?" they asked. "That's me," said Mr Smith, laying his hand on his head, a reply that threw the House into uncontrollable laughter. The Jermyu Press informs us that " Moses Harris, a colored man, who was bitten by a mad dog some weeks ago, at Delta, Miss., developed symptoms of hydrophobia, frightening his family and friends away. A posse secured the maddened man and chained him. He succeeded in breaking loose, and attacked one of the posse, who knocked him down with a club and killed him." They settle things quickly in America. Colonel (at the mancouyers, to youn* lieutenant who has lately joiued tberegi tnent) : " Lieutenant, what would you do with your diyision if yoa were attacked by iheenerny'a infantry on both B>des — that is to saj on the ritiht and left wines - with a body of cavalry rushing at you from the front and a brigade of artillery drawn ud in your rear ?" Lieutenant : "I would command — Battalion, halt! Ground arms ? Stand at ease ! Helmets off for prayers ?" The colonel nodded approvingly, and rode off in a meditative mood. Mr Martin, S.M., stated at the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Wednesday that owing to the curiously framed by-laws relating to cattle or horses wandering at large, an information charging a person with being the owner of a horse wandering at large would not hold good. Formerly the bye-law applied to the owner of any cat tie, but it had since been amended to read any cattle or horses, and there was no interpretation clause making the by-law applicable to the owner of one horse. He had no authority that words in the plural were meant to cover words in the singular and therefore he thought it useless to go on with the cases. Mr John Scott, of Invercargill, an old flax-miller, is (according to the Southland News) an applicant for the Government bonus for utilising the waste products of the phormium tenax. The waste is reduced to powder, and this, applied either dry or in a liquid infusion, is stated to possess rare healing properties for wounds or burns, while taken internally it acts as a tonic, and has been found to be very beneficial in cases of sickness. A remarkable feature of the preparation is its preservative qualities. A kitten that had been placed in a solution of the powder for forty-five days has now been sixty-five days exposed to all weatljjerw without any sign of putrefaction. Mr Scott has patented his process. It iB a novel thing to learn that the Bank of England has experienced some difficulty in finding storage room for " the macs of metal," as a London daily, with unconscious irreverence, styles gold, which has flowed its precincts •• Such an accumulation of gold " remarks the Daily Delegraph, " as that now seen here was never anticipated, and it is not yet over " The Daily Telegraph then proceeds to speculate on the possibility of the accumulation reaching 40 millions, but thai has not yet come off. In due course however, the accumulation will melt away in response to improved trade conditions, for the staunchest British monometallist is agreed (but for different reasons) on one point with the bimetallist, viz., that an accumulation of gold is bad. In the opinion of one it is bad for trade ; in the opinion of the other it is 4 bad for the bimetallic notion th^t t\we ip a scarcity of gold. The gazetting of the Levin Special Settlement Block having taken place in the last Government Gazette, the sections will shortly be offered for sale. There are 700 acres in the block which is situated between Mr Bartholomew's mill at Levin and Sir Walter Btiller'e property at Ohau. The opening up of the block will prove a great benefit to the Levin district, if only in the direction of increasing the settlement. Mr J, G.Wilson, M.H R., has continually kept the matter in view, and only a fortnight ago he wrote to Mr J Gower, of Levin, and informed him that tbo Government had promised to gazette the block in the next issue of the Gazette. This haa now been done, and Mr Wilson is deserving of the thanks of the settlers for the energy he showed in studying their interests. — Manawatu Times, The Bendigo Independent states that " the residents of Eaglehawk have been Hin»zed at the heartless and inhuman trentment meted out to the child prisoner, Young, churned with the larceny of a tin of fish. The lad — be is motherless— is a little over 12 years of age 111-cl»d, yet, and in damp clothes, and duriug the severest weather we have had for years, h- was thru.3t int# a pold lock-up cell before midday oo Wednesday, and was not looked at «.2ain till 9 o'eloel* next morning. He was 22 hours v/itbout food, ard wor<=<e thn# that, without a blanket or an* berlcl"thes to poyer- him. The poor child, when found in th.6 m.ornjng, was noiirlv' frozen to dcuth. And this nt (CagirhHwk, »nd with lo p«ir.< of unused bluiikets in a spa-e room of the lock up. The excuse of tl.e officer in charge that bo bjjd correspondence and a football mutch t<> afi#nd will not bold water. Sine the above, Ssrfteant Lannin ba9 been suspended. &~~u Superintendent Perry directed to hold an inquiry,

Over 30 applications have been received for the post of Secretary to the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company. No selection has yet been made. At a largely attended meeting of women in Dunedin on Thursday, convened by the Mothers' Union, resolutions were passed protesting against the Divorce Bill now before Parliament. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Feilding Oddfellows' Lodge, M.U., was held in the Foresters' Hall last evening. The attendance was large, and one new member was initiated. It was decided to hold a social and dance in the Foresters' Hall on September 21st, and a strong committee was formed tc caxry out necessary arrangements. The London Times considers that an Imperial mail service entirely independent of the outside world would be a solid benefit in either war or peace. In the event of the facilities offered being equal, it would be better to subsidise Mr Huddart's steamers than the existing lines. Minor objections, it considers, should not be listened to. At a meeting of the Nelson Railway League on Thursday night very strong indignation was expressed at the proposal to throw over the Nelson section under the Midland Railway contract. A monster meeting is called for Monday night, at which all the local bodiea in the country districts will be represented. Mr Herbert-Jones will give his second and last dioramic lecture on " Our Country and the Worlds Wonderland " at the Assembly Rooms, Feilding, on Monday evening, when he will deal with the North Island, describing and illustrating all its interesting features including the volcanic chain of moutains, the whole tire belt and the kauri forests. The Standard says : — The other day we stated in a paragraph that Mr W. T. Wood had turned out 47 horseshoes in an hour. Mr J. J. Llewellyn is sceptical as to the ability of Mr Wood or any other man to accomplish such a feat, and has accordingly challenged Mr Wood on a £5 forfeit to turn out this number of shoes at a public trial. On Thursday last a man named Baines, a settler on the Pohangina road, met with a very serious accident, which will necessitate his confinement to the hospital for some time. It appears he was carting timber from the Victoria sawmill with a two-horse team, ancl iv going on to his property with a load Mr Baines stood in the gateway as the team passed through, and the leader swerving sharply round the unfortunate man was jammed against the gate-post by a protruding end of the timber. Dr Wilson was as soon as possible in attendance, and found that the breast-bone and several ribs had been broken, and the lungs pierced. The injured man is now in the Palmerston hospital.